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Currently leading (an estimate, though not really) is Vernon, with about 300,000 words. I finished the C's before I quit copying and pasting. About 31,000 words, + annos. So roughly at 31k being approx. 1/6th of his ideas, and assuming similar wordage amounts, he probably has about 186,000 words in ideas, and probably about 100,000 in annos. |
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Encouraging wordiness, are we? |
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I had to hit Page Down as many times to read that, as the number of keystrokes I normally use to type a message! |
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what [normzone]said and [sm] dittoed and [Shz] didn't say. |
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[DesertFox] help me understand where
you're getting these numbers from? |
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Go to a vernon idea, copy from top to bottom, then do a word count in MSword or wordperfect. |
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If someone hits the million word mark, my vote would be to take his/her keyboard away, not give him/her another one! |
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Indeed. I just copied and pasted all of my ideas, and I'm at a pathetic 13,600. Lucky for my ego, that doesn't include titles, summaries, or annos, which might put me over 15,000. |
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[jtg] copying and pasting his text from his ideas from #'s to the letter C. 30 ideas before I got bored (1/6 of his total ideas), at an average of 3,100 words per idea, not counting titles and subtitles. |
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On the other hand it could be [FarmerJohn]. His ideas are far less verbose but there are almost 5 times as many of them. Copying and pasting 764 ideas isn't my idea of a day well spent though. |
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Whenever I catch myself digging up these sort of stats from the 'bakery I try to find something more constructive to do (I have a long list). |
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OK so, yeah, I just got sucked into the rabbit hole that is the 12864 idea. ...30 minutes later... |
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[DesertFox] You can probably make a fairly accurate extrapolation from that #-C count you've already done. |
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Instead of copying and pasting into word to do your word-count, there ought to be some shell-script that can be run in unix (possibly using a combination of 'curl' and 'wc') that would be able to automatically measure a user's contribution. |
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Average novel has 80,000 to 100,000 words. |
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